I can’t forget when the circus came to town once a year. Posters glued to walls promised elephants, fire breathers, acrobats — and always clowns. Looking at the storage trunk; Our Site, feels like it was there backstage, stuffed with costumes and props, cheap vintage trunk waiting for the show to begin. When I first saw the circus clown trunk, I just stared. The painted face staring upside down across the front felt like more than decoration. It felt like a memory of a lost world — a travelling circus.

Trunks aren’t just wooden boxes. They’re time capsules. Before suitcases rolled through airports, trunks were the way people travelled. Built solid, heavy duty, vintage trunk sometimes decorated with brass corners or painted lettering.